Like every single one of my ideas, this is probably unoriginal, or bland, or similar to another SCP. But hey, maybe I'll eventually think of something good. Anyways, here's the general concept:

The object is a tea cup, made from fine china. If a subject drinks anything from the cup, their body slowly turns into fine china, until they are completely immobile, and cannot speak or breath. Eventually, they die. because they either can't breath, or the heart has stopped pumping blood because of the objects effects.

I have to agree with Leveritas, most ideas fail because the focus is solely on the object and not how it makes the reader feel. but anyway onto the idea.

To expand on what Leveritas explained we need backstory and a good hook, here is my idea for that.

This made me think of the Ancient Chinese terracotta army, which sent chills down my spine. Maybe the SCP could take that route as it would make the item more believable and grounded in our reality. The feeling you convey in the reader after that is up to you. best of luck!

This made me think of the Ancient Chinese terracotta army, which sent chills down my spine. Maybe the SCP could take that route as it would make the item more believable and grounded in our reality. The feeling you convey in the reader after that is up to you. best of luck!

As I said to Leveritas, the object could have been created by a sorcerer originating from china, who's soul purpose would be to create the perfect China tea cup, one that couldn't be broken, as China isn't a very durable material at all. But around the time he crafted the cup, he was dying, so he gave it the ability to add the victims of the object to itself, essentially using there souls to become more durable.

Alright, but where do you want to go with that? What story do you want to tell your reader? What do you want them to feel?

Get away from "type of object" or "sort of creature" and instead start thinking about stories you want to tell. Here you have an anomalous object, but no direction to form a narrative yet. We have a lot of anomalous objects, so adding a new one requires it to be very unique or have a very good hook. With 'hook' I mean a good backstory, an interesting reaction to it from Foundation personnel, things like that.

Maybe the object could have been created by a sorcerer originating from china, who's soul purpose would be to create the perfect China tea cup, one that couldn't be broken, as China isn't a very durable material at all. But around the time he crafted the cup, he was dying, so he gave it the ability to add the victims of the object to itself, essentially using there souls to become more durable.

Hmm. That's actually close to being the right sort of stupid- that is, the kind that's so illogical and weird it loops back around to interesting.

The part that really grabs me is the idea of someone fixating on trying to make unbreakable porcelain, with the final product of their life's work being an indestructible teacup…that is completely useless for some reason related to its anomalous properties.

I don't think the flaw even needs to be dangerous- just moderately inconvenient. If it's mild enough and there's some chance of figuring out the recipe, the SCP status could be entirely because the Foundation is trying to figure out a way to mass produce the stuff for containment chambers and body armor. X3

Hmm. That's actually close to being the right sort of stupid- that is, the kind that's so illogical and weird it loops back around to interesting.

Wait, really? I didn't think it could be interesting at all.

I don't think the flaw even needs to be dangerous- just moderately inconvenient. If it's mild enough and there's some chance of figuring out the recipe, the SCP status could be entirely because the Foundation is trying to figure out a way to mass produce the stuff for containment chambers and body armor.

Actually, you're right. It could help with the containment of some SCP's if they figured out how to recreate the object, They could even create weaponry, such as combat knifes, bullets, blast shields, and normal shields. But not armor though, as the MTF wouldn't be able to move in it, because it's china.